 Over two years ago I started a redesign of TRHOnline.com which never really got completed. I redid the frontpage of the site completely, but never really made the needed corrections to the subpages (beyond changing the background image really).
As of yesterday, that changed. I rolled out the (mostly) completed design to the rest of the website... whether it was ready or not. Needless to say, it's been a bit of a process.
As I've said many times before, TRHOnline.com is a hodge podge of backends hacked together over quite some time. About six or seven (or whatever) years ago I moved about 75% of the site into a custom backend which, while not always elegant, is fairly adaptable. That 75% was incredibly easy to update into the new design. The problem lies with the remaining 25%.
That 25% is a hodgepodge of pages, articles and utilities which either were too old to transition, had some special needs, or I was just too lazy to deal with. And that 25% has been my headache. Right now I'm on a page hunt for sections that require major changes still... and there are plenty out there.
That said, most of my sites traffic comes to the actively maintained parts of my site -- and those parts are at least fully functional under the new design. Some sections (like this very blog) have more changes coming to them, but none drastic.
So yeah, I finally got around to something I set out to work on over two years ago but got a bit sidetracked during. Sorry about that.
Also - I will ask that if you have time, poke around the website. If you find a page that's broken or looks screwed up, let me know so I can go hunt it down and beat it into submission. Even if its some old part you don't think anyone'd ever visit, I'd like to get it fixed.
Fun and exciting.
- Traegorn
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Another two chapters have completed in The Chronicles of Crosarth, so that (of course) means it's time for another print edition to come out! You can, of course, buy it via my Createspace store for it, or find it on Amazon.com if you'd like. In either place, it's $9.99 for all forty pages of epic comic-ness.
(The comic is also available via Amazon UK and Amazon Europe, but I don't remember the exact prices there off the top of my head on those sites)
If you want to pick up books one and two as well, you can find links to them on the "Buy Stuff" page of The Chronicles of Crosarth site. Again, both are $9.99 an installment, and make wonderful holiday gifts.
I've always said the best experience with The Chronicles of Crosarth is with the print editions, as I write and plot out each chapter of the comic as a unified piece. Page by page on the website is nice and all, but the collected experience (and the way two pages are laid out next to each other from time to time) is really the best way to read the comic.
Also, they are a great way to get your friends into the comic, as they can sit back and read them away from a computer.
So yeah - book three. Enjoy.
- Traegorn
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Today's entry is, of course, more "random art" from an upcoming page of The Chronicles of Crosarth. This is part of a panel that won't appear for over a week, but it's honestly not that spoilery. I mean, it's just Allison Friday wearing one of the cloaks we saw a character wearing on the freighter she and Kellin hitched a ride on. If you've depicted a character standing next to an article of clothing and then show the character WEARING said piece of clothing... well, if you're that sensitive to spoilers, I hope you don't watch movie trailers.
Anywho, yeah. Not really anything else to say about this.
- Traegorn
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So today's random art is a pair of unnamed, completely unimportant characters. They will be in the background of an upcoming page from The Chronicles of Crosarth. They're literally just designed to stand in the background. I don't know who they are, or why they're dressed so ridiculously -- they just are.
I'M SURE THAT EXPLANATION WAS WHOLLY SATISFYING.
- Traegorn
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It's hard to believe I've been doing UnCONventional for three years. Well, technically the anniversary is in another week, but since the Third Chapter just ended, I figure it's close enough.
It's kind of odd to compare today's comic (a panel from which is featured above) to the first one. My style has evolved, the art no longer looks like a terrible monstrosity (seriously, I cannot begin to say how much I hate the art in that first year).
Many things have changed of course, I've learned to pace storylines better, I've actually started adding things like backgrounds... and in two separate storylines, the strip has been presented in color.
Chapter Four will start on Tuesday, and I'm excited for it. There is one major change happening to the comic - and it's a big one. Rather than return to black and white, Chapter Four (in its entirety) will be presented in color. It'll be a little bit more work, but I figure what the heck.
It'll be a few months before the print edition of Chapter Three comes out - as I plan on adding some bonus content (much more than what's been in previous books), so you'll have to wait on that until early spring/late winter if you're one of the people who enjoys the dead tree versions of my comics.
All in all, it's been a good run so far - and hopefully it'll continue to be one.
- Traegorn
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Between Daisho Con and Thanksgiving, I've spent more time in Wisconsin these last two weeks than I have at home. While both trips to the state I consider my true home were more than worth it, this amount of travel can be downright exhausting and I'm glad that Crysta and I are back in the moderate comfort of our apartment.
Thanksgiving itself was a nice affair at my parent's house in the suburbs of Milwaukee. It was a small gathering, only six of us really, but the food was delicious and the company entertaining. Frankly, it was probably the best Thanksgiving I've had in years.
The lovely wife and I stuck around Milwaukee for a few days, finding time to hang out with both my family and Crysta's brother. Eventually though it came time to hit the road, and take the Illinois tollway home for the last time until Christmas (hopefully).
In truth, all I want to do right now is collapse and sleep - but sadly the "vacation" is over. I have to re-enter the real world and get things done again. Time to get back to everything I put off before going out of town in the first place... which isn't that much, as I was finally smart enough to work ahead on my own projects for once.
It's still nice to be home again though, be it ever so humble.
- Traegorn
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Got back from Daisho Con last night and collapsed. I had an awesome time, and it yet again remains one of my favorite conventions. We sold some books, the new prints went over well, and got to hang out with a bunch of friends I rarely get to see.
All in all, an awesome way to spend a weekend.
This is my last con for a while, as I don't have anything on my schedule until Anomaly Con and No Brand Con in the spring (and you should go to those if you can). This makes me a little sad, because I love cons -- but that's what I can make time for these days.
Such is life.
In any case -- as previously stated, Daisho Con was an awesome time. Thanks to everyone who stopped by my table and said hello - I hope to see you all again soon.
- Traegorn
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Tonight I hit the road and head north to Daisho Con 2012 in Wisconsin Dells, WI. I'll have copies of UnCONventional books one and two, The Chronicles of Crosarth books one and two, and some prints (both old and new) in hand. If you're going to be there, find me in the Artist Alley and say hi.
This is one of my favorite cons, so needless to say I'm excited. If you aren't going already, trust me when I say you're missing out on quite the good time.
- Traegorn
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So today's Random Art actually comes from one of last week's UnCONventional comic strips. There is no actual story that goes behind this one really. I have stories of people driving into fields, I have weird con stories -- but I lack any con stories where people drive into fields. The idea was spawned slightly tangentially from something much more realistic.
For the first No Brand Con, I was in charge of all staff scheduling (a post now called Workforce Organizer but had a different title back then). Back in 2002, a day before the con, I was still working on the schedule. As I'd been out of town, was doing so from the side of the road with a few print outs and my cellphone.
That, to me, is amusing but not actually funny... and because I've known people who have ended up off the road (in that very model car), I thought I'd spice it up a bit.
As, y'know, this is fiction.
- Traegorn
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